Returnum Irreplegiabile

A judicial writ addressed to the sheriff for the final restitution or return of cattle to the owner when unjustly taken or distrained, and so found by verdict. It is granted after a nonsuit in a second deliverance. Reg. Jud. 27. REUS (Lat.)

In civil law. A party to a suit, whether plaintiff or defendant. Reus est qui cum altero litem, eontestatem habet, sive id egit, sive cum eo actum, est. A party to a contract. Reus credendi is he to whom something is due, by whatever title it may be; reus debendi is he who owes, for whatever cause. Poth. ad Pand. lib. 50.

A judicial writ addressed to the sheriff for the final restitution or return of cattle to the owner when unjustly taken or distrained, and so found by verdict; it is granted after a nonsuit in a second deliverance. Reg. Judic. 27. REUS (Lat.). In Civil Law. A party to a suit, whether plaintiff or defendant. Reus est qui cum altcro litem contestatam habet, sive id eg it, sive cum eo actum eat. A party to a contract. Reus credcndi is he to whom something is due, by whatever title it may be: reus debendi is he who owes, reus promdttendi, the debtor or obligor to the stipulation. Where there were several creditors or several debtors jointly entitled to, or jointly liable under, a stipulation they were respectively called correi. See Mens Kea; Intent.